Word: bulwarks
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...Harvard must stand firm in the coming decade as a bulwark against the grave danger of lowered academic standards," J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday...
...Enemies of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the man who is strategic Iraq's chief bulwark against a Communist takeover, charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth. Kassem himself recently told a TIME correspondent: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else if they like." Incidentally, the main reason Kassem rides through Baghdad every afternoon is not to receive the applause of the crowds, but to visit his suburban home for a bath: the Defense Ministry, where Kassem sleeps, has no bathroom...
...Switzerland's 22 cantons last week, this bulwark of the Swiss way of life was meeting its supreme test: the first nationwide referendum on whether women should vote. Typically, the campaigning -both pro and con-was conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands through the streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue...
...frontiers on the Bering Strait, three miles from Asia. The U.S. also picked up in Alaska its first noncontiguous state, and thus added a new dimension-and a new promise-to the Union that had grown from Plymouth Rock and Philadelphia through Appomattox and Omaha Beach to become the bulwark of the free world...
...Communists, he claimed, will never take over a well-fed and happy people. "Economically strong countries are our best bulwark against Communist aggression" he said...